Marie Zacharias

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Marie Zacharias 1905, portrayed by Rudolf Dührkoop
Marie Zacharias 1904, painted by Leopold von Kalckreuth
Pillow stone Marie Zacharias , Ohlsdorf cemetery

Marie Anna Zacharias (born November 11, 1828 as Marie Anna Langhans in Hamburg , † February 15, 1907 ibid) was a German draftsman .

Life

Marie Zacharias was a child of the Jewish businessman Carl Friedrich Langhans and his wife Auguste, who was considered to be extremely spirited. She was born into a musical household in St. Georg and grew up with three younger siblings. Her real home was the quiet house of her grandmother Wilhelmine Greve, who had adopted Auguste Langhans and who lived in Hamm and later in Billwerder . Together with two other girls, Marie Zacharias attended a boys' school in the Dutch series, which Marianne Prell directed. After taking private lessons with other girls in the meantime, she attended a school run by Maria Plath on the Mühren, where she could not manage. Therefore, she received private lessons again.

In 1850 she married Adolph Nikolaus Zacharias . He was considered a witty and educated businessman who owned a varied library and a collection of engravings and, as a member of the Hamburg citizenship, also had political influence. The couple had the children Eduard , Marie Anne (* 1854) and Adolf Nicolaus Zacharias .

Marie Zacharias was considered energetic, powerful and humorous. She enjoyed music, could play the piano, painted and tried to improve her skills well into old age. In several hundred pictures she documented the houses and streets of Hamburg and the landscapes of Billwerder and Hamm. As a contemporary witness, she recorded significant upheavals in the Hamburg cityscape, such as the rapid reconstruction after the Hamburg fire of 1842 or the construction of the railway line to Berlin . These pictures can be found in the family, city and children's stories from 1954, in the Museum of Hamburg History , the Hamburger Kunsthalle , in the Hamburg State Archives and in family ownership.

With the sudden death of her husband in 1880, Marie Zacharias ran into financial problems. Her situation only improved after her daughter Marie Anne married the businessman Eduard Lippert . He bought a house on Mittelweg for Marie Zacharias in 1891 and supported her with generous pension payments. In 1886 the artist met Alfred Lichtwark , who gave her new impulses. She took over the deputy chairmanship of the Society of Hamburg Art Friends founded by Lichtwark , in which collectors, art lovers and amateurs came together. In addition to lectures and annual exhibitions, the association wanted to stimulate the passion for collecting and support amateurs with their works of art. From 1985 to 1912 Zacharias illustrated the association's yearbooks and wrote articles on art and cultural history. She created a pot chamber in the garden of her house for pots and vases made to designs by members . She also supervised the creation and distribution of the vases with which Lichtwark, decorated with appropriate flowers, wanted to make everyday life more beautiful.

In the last years of his life, Zacharias worked particularly with woodcuts . Until two weeks before her death she took drawing lessons from Max Kuchel . Three portraits that Leopold von Kalckreuth created of her in 1904 at Lichtwark's suggestion can now be found in the Hamburger Kunsthalle.

The grave of Marie Zacharias, who died in mid-February 1907, is in the Ohlsdorf cemetery , grid square R 25, 27–56. immediately to the left behind the Trumm mausoleum .

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  1. ↑ Pillow stone Marie Zacharias (bottom picture) and the names of other family members at genealogy.net
personal data
SURNAME Zacharias, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zacharias, Marie Anna (full name); Langhans, Marie Anna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1907
Place of death Hamburg